2006 Public Health Genius Award Winners
2006 Public Health Genius Awards
2006 Public Health Merit Awards
LEFT TO RIGHT: Leda Garside, 2006 Genius Award; Michael Heumann, 2006 Merit
Award; Paige Sipes-Metzler, Board of Directors; Nancy Gummer, 2006 Merit Award;
Paul Cosgrove, Board of Directors; Susan Sanzi-Schaedel, 2006 Genius Award; and
Mary Lou Hennrich, Executive Director.
2006 Public Health Genius Awards
Leda Garside
Through hands-on work with vineyard workers and collaboration with farmers and health care providers, Leda Garside has improved the delivery of health services to seasonal workers. As Clinical Nurse Manager of !Salud!, a health-based outreach program offered through Tuality Healthcare, Leda has taken health education and health services to vineyard workers and their families. She has also given voice to the health care needs of her clients. The result, over a decade of work, has been improved health for seasonal workers and improved community commitment to delivering necessary services such as vaccinations, safety education including pesticide applicator training and certification, CPR, first aid, ergonomics and back safety. Having developed the trust of both farmers and vineyard workers, Leda has been able to help farmers meet OR-OHSA standards and also glean basic demographic information from vineyard workers to develop a data base for effective program planning. Utilizing her collaborative skills, Leda has been able to bring dental vans to the vineyards as well as hold wellness clinics at work sites where cholesterol, diabetes, and blood pressure screenings as well as cancer awareness sessions are provided. Through these efforts, seasonal workers have better access to care in a community partnership. Leda was nominated for a Genius Award by Laurence Hornick, MD, Medical Imaging Group of Hillsboro and member of the Tuality Healthcare Foundation.
Susan Sanzi-Schaedel
Over a 28 year career as the Director of School and Community Dental Health at Multnomah County Health Department, Sue Sanzi-Schaedel has been a tireless advocate for oral health and worked to provide quality oral health education and services for children and indigent adults. She has been instrumental in developing numerous programs that promote oral health: fluoride education, school-based fluoride and dental sealant programs, “Baby Days” – a dental caries prevention education effort, tobacco cessation services and the provision of a dental van to provide dental care access to immigrant communities. Sue has been instrumental in facilitating volunteer opportunities for dentists to provide care to underserved children and served on numerous professional and public health boards in Oregon and nationally working to improve access to dental care. Prior to recently retiring from the health department, Sue was a founding member of Oregon’s Statewide Oral Health Coalition and will coordinate the Dept. Human Services Oral Health Smile Survey in the coming year. Sue was nominated for a Genius Award by Gordon Empey, DMD, MPH, Dental Health Consultant, Oral Health Program, Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services-Health
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2006 Public Health Merit Awards
Nancy Gummer, RD, CDE
Nancy Gummer, a Registered Dietician, has been instrumental in changing the way Good Shepherd Medical Center in Umatilla County prepares food for its patients and employees. In the process, Nancy has raised awareness in Eastern Oregon and in food services around the state concerning how to provide quality healthy food. From serving wild salmon, emphasizing organic fruits and vegetables and replacing beef with bison, Nancy’s efforts to improve hospital food for patients, their families and staff have garnered national attention, including an article in May 2006 issue of Time magazine. Nancy’s emphasis on providing nutritious local foods have been well received by patients, families and staff and are consistent with her philosophy of promoting healthy food choices. She was instrumental in establishing diabetes education classes for the community. Nancy was nominated by Janet Jones, Community Health Educator, Umatilla County Health Department.
Michael Heumann, MPH
Michael Heumann, an Epidemiologist with Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology (EOE)– Oregon Department of Human Services – demonstrates an unfailing commitment to improving the environmental health of Oregonians. Over the past twenty years he has been involved in numerous difficult epidemiologic investigations which have brought him into contact with the public. Through his intellect, collaborative skills and compassion, he has been able to both assuage fear when it was unwarranted and advocate for protective policies and procedures to assure the public’s health. Through Michael’s efforts at EOE, Oregon has developed a national reputation for excellence in environmental epidemiology, disease surveillance, case management and risk reduction education and facilitated interagency and public-private efforts to address occupational illness, pesticide poisonings, assess exposure to hazardous waste sites as well as tracking of public health related conditions and issues. Michael was nominated by Donald Austin, MD, MPH, OHSU School of Medicine.
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